Immediate Employment Opportunity - The Italian Hospital Society
Immediate Employment Opportunity - The Italian Hospital Society Administrative Assistant (Manhattan-Yonkers) The Italian Hospital Society is seeking an individual with excellent computer and organizational skills to perform, among other responsibilities, the following tasks:-Act as liaison between the Society President, members of the society and...
Slowear, for Italian Men’s Wear, Opens in SoHo
by Jon Caramanica The other day, I was waiting for a text to let me know to leave the house to meet a person for a thing, but the person was late, or being made late, and so for about 20 minutes I was in a sort of limbo, a purgatory state between ready-to-go and out-the-door. Confronted with a similar scenario, some people would respond t...
Conair's Italian Roots: How Leandro Rizzuto And His Immigrant Parents Built The Most Iconic Hair Dryers
The way Leandro Rizzuto tells it, hairdressing was always a part of his family's heritage. "We didn't have reality shows, so what you had at home was a reality business," the chairman of Conair recalled of his childhood, where his parents, Julian and Josephine Rizzuto, once ran two salons in Manhattan that employed 100 hairdressers. Two of...
Italiani a New York, nasce il progetto Mires per rilanciare l’Emilia Romagna negli States
di Piero Armenti Pochi giorni fa si è inaugurato a New York il nuovo progetto nato dalla collaborazione tra la stilista italiana Pamela Quinzi ed il giovane imprenditore Italiano Andrea Balestra: Mires "Italy to Love". Una festa in uno dei più conosciuti Rooftop di Manhattan, lo Skyroom per celebrare l'inizio di una nuova avventura tu...
Renzo Piano custode dell'arte americana ad Harvard
By Valeria Robecco Dopo il New York Times Building e la Morgan Library, e in attesa dell'inaugurazione della nuova sede del Whitney Museum, prevista per il 2015, anche la Ivy League si rivolge a Renzo Piano. L'architetto conferma il forte legame con gli Stati Uniti presentando a New York la sua nuova opera, la ristrutturazione e l'ampliam...
At 82, Valentino Is Still the Ultimate Party ‘Get’ in New York
by John Koblin It was 9:30 p.m. in mid-November and Valentino Garavani was in his element. The fashion designer had just finished conducting an hourlong Q-and-A about his six-decade career at the 92nd Street Y on Manhattan's Upper East Side. As he stood in a gallery space, just off the theater, dressed in a pristine navy suit with...
This New Italian E-Commerce Site Is Taking on the Luxury Fashion Industry
Buy your new favorite leather jacket and fight the tyranny of retail markups in one fell swoop? Sign us up.Armadio is a new e-commerce marketplace that brings luxury Italian fashion straight from Tuscany's best craftsmen—the same ones that design and manufacture leather goods for brands such as Prada, Gucci, Max Mara, and Brunello Cucinelli, and co...
Mobile clinic offers free mammograms in December
By Paula Katinas Women who have not had mammograms will be able to get them for free on one of two dates in December, thanks to a partnership between the American Italian Cancer Foundation and state Sen. Marty Golden. Golden announced that the American Italian Cancer Foundation will provide free digital mammograms and clinic...
DALLE MARCHE A NEW YORK CON UN SOGNO: SILVIA TROBBIANI HAIR STYLIST DELLE STAR
Si chiama Silvia Trobbiani, fa l'hair stylist, ha 30 anni ed è originaria di Corridonia: Silvia è arrivata a New York il 6 febbraio 2012 con il sogno di fare l'hair stylist delle star. La sua avventura e il suo percorso vengono raccontati sul portale www.scoprinewyork.it. Silvia "ha iniziato a lavorare come acconciatrice a 13 anni...
Like father, like sons: Family of carriage drivers defend the industry that pays their bills
It's all in the family.Giuseppe Riccobono, 59, galloped his way to a full-time career as a horse-carriage driver shortly after he emigrated from Italy in 1981. Decades later, his sons Francesco, 27, and Antonino, 26, followed in their father's footsteps into the tourist-friendly carriage commerce.Now, they are all fighting to keep their jobs. &nb...
Great event for Italian Startups in NYC: VentureOutItaly III
From Sunday, November 2nd to Friday November 5th, Italian Business and Investment Initiative in partnership with VentureOutNY will host VentureOutItaly III Fall Event, one-week NY Market Accelerator program for Italian tech startups. The 15 most promising Italian tech startups will take part in one week US business expansion program that f...
Inside Victoria Fine Foods, one of Brooklyn's last food factories
By Melissa Kravitz While Brooklyn used to be known for its manufacturing, the industrial side of Brooklyn has been noticeably shrinking through the past decade. Blocks away from the Canarsie L, the last stop on the line, stand the Victoria Fine Foods factory. Started as a family company in 1929, 86 years later Victoria still...